LILY FAMILY. Liliacese. 



Bellwort 



Uvularia per 

 foliata 

 Pale corn 

 yellow 

 flay -June 



A graceful woodland plant, smooth 

 throughout, with a forking stem (one to 

 three leaves below the fork), the deep 

 green ovate-lance-shaped leaves appearing 

 as if perforated by it. The delicately fra- 

 grant flower-cup, granular-rough inside, 

 is attenuated but lilylike, with six distinct pale corn 

 yellow sepals. Flowers perfect, with six short stamens 

 and a pistil. Sepals with a deep honey-bearing groove 

 within ridged on either edge. 



Seed pod a three-parted capsule, appearing as if 

 chopped off at the end, and in this respect entirely dif- 

 ferent from that of the Oakesia following. Name from 

 uvula, palate, referring to the way the flower hangs. 

 It grows 6-18 inches high, in rich woods, from Me. to 

 the Dakotas, and south. 



This is the commoner bellwort from 

 western New Eng., west and south. 

 The deep green leaves are tine-white- 

 hairy beneath ; the large pale, corn yellow 

 flower, inclining to green, at the summit, 

 is fully 1£ inches long, and smooth inside. 

 Stem with a single leaf or none below the 

 fork. A more limited distribution, south to Ga. and west 

 to Minn., Iowa, and S. Dak. 



Similar in some respects to the foregoing 

 genus, but with marked differences. Stem 

 angled. The deep green leaves, fine-hairy 

 beneath, conspicuously three - grooved, 

 sharp-pointed, and stemless, or slightly 

 clasping. The six divisions of the flower 

 less pointed, no ridges within the flower-cup, the latter 

 more buffish cream-colored, but still near corn yellow. 

 The seed capsule three-sided, resembling a beech nut. The 

 one or two flowers on slender stems, at first terminating 

 the plant stem, but finally appearing opposite the leaves 

 by reason of the growth of the branches. Named for 

 William Oakes, an early botanist of New England. 



Stem 6-13 inches high. It is very common in the 

 north woods. Me., south to Ga., and west to Minn, and 



Large-flowered 

 Bellwort 

 Uvularia gr au- 

 di flora 

 Pale corn 

 yellow 

 April-June 



Oakesia 



Oakesia sessili- 



folia 



Corn or cream 



yellow 



May-June 



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